KinoPoisk

KinoPoisk (Russian: КиноПоиск, a portmanteau of "cinema" and "search") is a Russian online database of information related to films, TV shows including cast, production team, biographies, plot summaries, ratings, and reviews. Since 2018, an online movie theater with several thousand films, TV series, cartoons, including premieres and exclusive ones, has also been available.[3]

KinoPoisk
Type of site
Specialty service
Available inRussian
HeadquartersMoscow
OwnerYandex
Created byVitaly Tatsiy
Dmitry Sukhanov
URLwww.kinopoisk.ru
Alexa rank221 global, 12 in the Runet[1]
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional, but registration allows a user to use much more functions
Launched7 November 2003 (2003-11-07)[2]

In 2013, KinoPoisk was purchased by Yandex, one of Russia's largest IT companies.[4] In 2015, KinoPoisk underwent a total redesign.[5] However, the new design was met with strong criticism by both users and the media for its inferior functionality and slower loading time. Within four days Yandex reverted the site to its former design that remains in use to this day.

At the moment it is one of the most popular movie portals of the Runet,[6][7] it occupies the 12th line in Alexa rating of Russian websites as of July 2019.[1] The website has 93 million visits per month. Among the sites dedicated to films, it occupies the 3rd place in the world in terms of traffic, giving way to the IMDb portal and the Chinese Douban.[8]

References
  1. "KinoPoisk Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Tatsiy, Vitaly (9 October 2007). "KinoPoisk.ru: доставляем удовольствие киноманам". cinema.bal-con.ru (Interview) (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  3. "У "КиноПоиска" появился платный онлайн-кинотеатр" (in Russian). hitech.vesti.ru. Retrieved 2019-02-25.
  4. Holdsworth, Nick (15 October 2013). "Russian Internet Giant Yandex Acquires Top Movie Site KinoPoisk". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  5. Mira, Vlad (26 October 2015). "How Yandex kills thier [sic] child's". Medium. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  6. "Movie websites rating" (in Russian). Rambler's Top100. Retrieved 2012-11-04.
  7. "Movie websites rating" (in Russian). Rating@Mail.Ru. Retrieved 2012-11-04.
  8. Analytics Stats kinopoisk.ru
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